Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is true that some journalists are greedy and ask for rather more samples than they require , but this is not the norm and these people are soon sniffed out . |
| 2 | and I keep on saying that I 've said it like about so many things when we 're at home and she goes , what is this you always saying well with everything . |
| 3 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 4 | I for one am going to go after much younger women because they 're tractable , cute , and society tacitly approves of that sort of thing . |
| 5 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 6 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 7 | Part-time cleaner Betty Woods , 60 , paid full contributions for just four years before she wed Ron , 62 . |
| 8 | The young striker was on the pitch for just five minutes before he made his mark . |
| 9 | Erm straight into the city centres of most major cities so you er if you travel by train you 're there in the centre if that 's where you want to be . |
| 10 | ‘ Plenty of much bigger bastards than you have been made captain , ’ Kimberly said . |
| 11 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 12 | Life may be construed as a series of ever growing accomplishments as we move towards a multitude of personal goals . |
| 13 | Defending champion Huggett , the former Ryder Cup skipper , missed six putts of under five feet as he slipped to a 73 for a two round aggregate of 145 — three over par . |
| 14 | Herschel reasoned that a relatively nearby star would show a parallax shift against the background of more remote stars if it were observed from opposite sides of the Earth 's orbit . |
| 15 | But that was before the recession had upset the calculations of more expert speculators than he . |
| 16 | Some men made a working tour of as many mines as they could , thus gaining experience in the differing conditions between districts and even neighbouring mines . |
| 17 | She promised to make all the arrangements , including the hiring of as many buses as she could find . |
| 18 | Make a list of as many Christians as you know at your school . |
| 19 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |
| 20 | We monitored them for a period of about twelve months before we reported to members on the outcome . |
| 21 | Coughing and spluttering , she went under , treading water , and suddenly found herself supported by a pair of equally strong arms as she fought for the surface . |
| 22 | These figures , however , certainly underestimate the true rates of racially motivated attacks for they are based on reports to the police and , as is well known , large numbers of incidents are not reported . |
| 23 | They will almost certainly include food and health , freedom of information , the European single market , new complaints mechanisms and the regulation of newly privatised industries where they tend to state or local monopoly . |
| 24 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 25 | I can think of very few occasions when you would not have the time to state your case . |
| 26 | There were also financial losses to the British Electricity Authority from having to operate old and inefficient plant for more extended periods than they would have chosen in normal times : in the early 1950s the extra cost of burning scarce coal inefficiently was reckoned at £3½ millions a year at the low official coal prices of the time , though the real resource cost was somewhat higher than this . |
| 27 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 28 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 29 | Fairly inexpensive papers can be made to seem — and last — like very expensive versions if you know some of the tricks : |
| 30 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |